I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

You could be in the United Nations office all night every night and still feel like you were not making a sufficient dent in the world's problems. I think the key is prioritization. But every job presents the tyranny of the inbox, of allowing the urgent to crowd out the important. So we have to have our lodestars.

We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

I get to be married to the liveliest mind I've ever encountered.... I hit the jackpot.